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Friday, September 25, 2015

So excited to announce MIDNIGHT KISS, the first book in my "Touched by Midnight" series, is ONLY $0.99 through September 27th! If you haven't read this Regency-set paranormal that was one of the books creating the first wave of vampire romances back in the '90s, now's the time! The entire series is currently being reissued with all new covers (and a chance for me to go back in to pull out the plethora of passive voice "was"s!). Watch for Book 3, MIDNIGHT SURRENDER, which should be available . . . TODAY!

“Dark and compelling, Gideon's novel will appeal to those who enjoy the vampire novels of Anne Rice.” —Library Journal

“A colorful and hauntingly beautiful tale of otherworldly love . . . destined to become a classic!”—Affaire de Coeur

“Incredible, spellbinding reading!” —Rendezvous

Hunt or be hunted . . . A centuries old obsession stalks a noble family fighting to hide their dark secret from an ever-changing world. Sink your teeth into Nancy Gideon's Touched by Midnight series.

A DARK CURSE

Miss Arabella Howland is content to forgo the London marriage mill to assist her father in his research, especially when it comes to his intriguing patient, Louis Radman. But it’s not long before Bella’s curiosity alerts her to the danger of her father’s work . . . and to the fact that Louis is not who or whathe seems.

A BRIGHT PROMISE

After centuries struggling with his vile existence, Louis Radman will soon be free of his affliction, thanks to his very capable physician. Unfortunately, his heart is less secure around the man’s tempting daughter. His yearning to walk in the light once more is complicated by his desire for the delightful Bella, who is as intelligent as she is fearless. But if history has taught him anything, it’s not to tempt fate.

AN UNFORGIVING PAST

Still, happiness has a price and Louis is soon reminded that mortality comes with unfortunate limitations. To protect his new bride, he must face the demons from his past who wish to pull him back into their vampiric fold.

Yet, if he’s forced to return to his midnight world, will he lose his beloved Bella forever?

Nancy Gideon is the author of over 55 novels ranging from Regencies, historicals and contemporary suspense to dark paranormal romance, with a couple of horror screenplays thrown into the mix. When not at the keyboard or working full time as a legal assistant in Southwest Michigan, she can be found feeding her addictions for Netflix and all things fur, feather and fin, enjoying Grammy time (usually watchingThe Avengers), and meeting new friends and readers through her GoodReads “Nancy Gideon by Moonlight” group. Her books can also be found under the pen names Dana Ransom, Rosalyn West and Lauren Giddings.

Monday, September 7, 2015

I’m not sure if I’m overly obsessed with research or
whether I’m just really good at choosing locations and subjects for my books about
which I know virtually nothing.

Over the course of writing my latest manuscript, I spent four
months researching the housing costs, landscape, street names, cemeteries,
restaurants, rainfall and average temperature, distance to other cities, architecture,
politics, economy, demographics, history, churches with obscure services,
vehicles, hotels, and a million other little details for the setting, even
traveling to the location to do some last-minute verification and get a
visceral feel for the place before finishing my revisions. Many other hours of
research went into the court system, public defenders, plea bargaining, magical
practices, mythology, poisons, alcohol, knife wounds, bleeding out, PTSD, and
even underwear. (My Google search history, I’m sure, has landed me on all kinds
of watch lists.)

As I started formulating a plan for my next manuscript even
as I was finishing the last, I tried to pick something that wouldn’t require
quite so much research, because I’d like to finish this one a little more
quickly. No sooner had a ghost of an idea entered my head than I was off to the
search engine, checking out property and land rights, maps, indigenous culture,
bars, and male strippers (yep, just slipped that right in there) for a new
setting. I’ve also chosen professions for my two main characters that I know
nothing about. There will be agriculture and animals with large heads involved.

And as I google LGBT-friendly wedding vendors in, of all
places, Billings, Montana, I have to wonder: why do I do this to myself? Why
can’t I just, as the adage goes, write
what I know? My mother gave me that advice when I was thirteen years old
after reading a story I was working on. She was probably right in that case; I
didn’t (and still don’t) know anything about what it was like to live near
Hiroshima at the end of World War II.

It would be great if I could tap the experience of my
personal career history and write an urban fantasy series about being a cop in
Louisiana or a crime series about being a forensic anthropologist
in Montreal. But writing about a heroine whose work experience spans essential
oil boutique clerk, bowling alley snack bar waitress, data entry specialist,
word processor, administrative assistant, web graphics designer, and editor
just doesn’t have the same punch.

I write about what I don’t
know because it interests me. Hopefully, I do a passable job of writing somewhat
knowledgeably about the situations and places I put my characters in, though I’m
sure I’ve made many mistakes. No doubt I could make my life easier by using the
city I live in as a setting, and giving my characters jobs I’ve done. But I
could also make my life easier by not writing at all. And what fun would that
be?

Guess I’m all in for the next ride, environmental activists,
gay cowboys, and all.

Jane Kindred is the author of the Harlequin Nocturne series, Sisters in Sin, and the epic fantasy series The House of Arkhangel’sk, Demons of Elysium, and Looking Glass Gods. She
spent her formative years ruining her eyes reading romance novels in
the Tucson sun and watching Star Trek marathons in the dark. She now
writes to the sound of San Francisco foghorns while two cats slowly but
surely edge her off the side of the bed.

Friday, September 4, 2015

And no one in my little town is going to go for that. But
being the good mother that I am, tried my best to make it happen since I was,
at part, responsible.

Hadn’t I been ecstatic when they’d finally been
ensnared in reading? Starting with the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony
Snicket, the Percy Jackson series and then I was thrilled when they devoured the
Harry Potter series. With a hunger for the world of magic and enchantment, they
didn’t stop there. Besides reading every YA fantasy/paranormal they could get
their hands on, they moved onto watching television shows.

Granted, part of me wondered if the obsession with the show
had to do with the two sexy, leading men playing Dean and Sam Winchester
(Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki)

So when they asked for their 14th birthday cake to have a
picture of an anti-demonic possession symbol on it, and explained to my raised
brow that it was from the show and both Sam and Dean have a tattoo of it, I
said I’d try my best.

But my best wasn’t good enough, because I’m a writer, and
not a cake decorator. The cake decorator wasn’t privy to this back story
and viewed me as if I was a bit off my rocker with my printed photo of an
anti-demonic possession symbol, requesting to put it on a devils food chocolate cake, of course.

After hesitantly asking the baker if they had any images
from the Supernatural television show and receiving a confused expression in
response, I pulled out my photo of my anti-demonic possession symbol and
requested they put this photo on the cake. This resulted in a lengthy explanation
of how this was not a copyrighted picture from the site, but one I
made. Then the hesitant argument... (cause I’m sure by now the baker was a little
wary of me)...was they couldn’t use a symbol that they couldn't identify.

Seeking reinforcements, the baker’s supervisor, and the manager came to surround me as I insisted it was only an anti-demonic possession
symbol as my voice grew quieter and quieter voice and my face became redder and redder.
The manager tried to help by pulling up the symbol on his phone,
only to declare, “Oh look, there’s your symbol. Right by some devil symbol.”

Three heads turn to look at me.

There comes a time, despite how much one loves fantasy,
paranormal and supernatural that a mom must retreat and get a boring, ordinary birthday cake
that says happy birthday and print out her own pictures to tape to
popsicle sticks and jam into a cake.

Find Me Here:

Penning stories boasting laughter, light suspense and something magical in the hope of sharing her love of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary world.

Carman has worn out more towns and last names than impractical
shoes protecting the secret of her magic blood. But when a friend goes missing,
and another is infected with a deadly spell, Carman must choose. Expose her
magic blood by curing the spell—or stop the infection from spreading by killing
the source…the grandmother.

Magic bounty hunter Dylan has scoured libraries of banned magic
paraphernalia seeking a method to distinguish genuine witches from impersonators.
He suspects unorthodox librarian Carman might hold this information tighter
than the hair he’s dying to unleash from her bun. With a past as hidden as his
sleeve of tattoos, Dylan discovers he’s been used to gain Carman’s trust and
their passion risks more than mixing mortals and magic.